2024-02-02 Groundhog Day

【Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion (1947)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Oh, that this lashing wind was something more

    Than the spirit of Ludwig Richter …

    The rain is pouring down. It is July.

    There is lightning and the thickest thunder.

    It is a spectacle. Scene 10 becomes 11,

    In Series X, Act IV, et cetera.

    People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,

    Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old,

    The air is full of children, statues, roofs

    And snow. The theatre is spinning round,

    Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.

    The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.

    And Ludwig Richter, turbulent Schlemihl,

    Has lost the whole in which he was contained,

    Knows desire without an object of desire,

    All mind and violence and nothing felt.

    He knows he has nothing more to think about,

    Like the wind that lashes everything at once.

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【《动态混乱与非动态混乱》(1947)】

异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

【红霞译】

            噢，但愿这猛烈的风不止是

            名将·法官的精神……

            大雨倾盆而下。时值七月。

            迅若闪电而势过雷鸣。

            景象蔚为奇观。场景10变成11，

            X系列里、第四幕、等等。

            人们从窗户坠落，树木摇摇欲倒，

            夏去冬来，少年变老，

            空气里充满了孩子、雕像、屋顶

            还有雪。剧场回转，

            与聋哑教堂和光学系统相撞。

            大批女高音歌手都在唱音阶优美的歌曲。

            而名将·法官，暴躁的倒霉鬼，

            已经失去他所在的整体，

            知道欲望而没有欲望的对象，

            所有的思想和暴力都感觉不到。

            他明白没有什么可想，

            就像风转瞬间席卷一切。

【注】《吾家有女初长》作者不详，但出现在白居易《长恨歌》里的经典名句广为流传，藉之庆祝13岁的湉妞，让生活、勇气和改变注入未来。

                吾家有女初长成，

                娇俏可人及倾城。

                借问芬芳春与秋，

                豆蔻年华无忧愁。

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